It's finally Saturday and I can't even serve customers without shaking in front of them and almost breaking down in front of them. It's still very early and all the early birds have arrived and I can't even serve at my best since I'm really nervous on the performance tonight, I feel like backing out.

When all of us had held the meeting, Louis has set up a plan for Marian and Harry. Once the gig finishes, we'll all quickly transform the coffee shop and make the romantic atmosphere be felt in the air and then set the both of them on a table with a candle lit on the centre just like how typical romantic things work and then that's pretty much it, the reason for this set up thing is that Marian has really liked Harry so much and the guy seems to be emotionless that he can't even sense it and they also planned this is because they thought the both of them would be a perfect couple.

Louis has also talked to me about the performance tonight, and everyone is really doubting me with regards with my singing abilities, I already accepted it myself that I suck at it but I still feel so offended, the only person who actually thinks that I sound like a goddess was Liam and I don't think he still thinks that way when I sang "It's confession weather" in front of everyone and already cracked my voice at the very first "Hey". Niall isn't also pleased with my voice and that's the most offending part, I feel so horrible for living with a perfect guy like him.

Even though I have a really bad voice, Louis is still pushing for me to sing with Marian because he thinks that we would sound great together because of her high pitched voice partnered with my very bad yet soft voice but if you think about it, I think I won't even be heard because Marian's voice would overpower mine in no time and it's an advantage because people won't hear me crack my voice while singing.

The day passed by real quick, maybe because I'm thinking about my worries all day, I reassured myself countless times that I would do fine, I don't really care if people would think that my voice sucks because I am already aware of that and it's what they wanted in the first place if I'm not mistaken, so they better live up with their words and bear with my cringe-worthy and horrible voice, this is the reason why you need to test something before actually going for it.

It's already past 5:00pm and I can smell a different aroma throughout the room, it smells like a mix of cheese and bacon and some bread if it actually does have a smell, it smells like something that makes you want to bite in the air because you can already taste the food by just smelling it.

"Hawaiian Pizza is now available!" Mr. Styles's deep and husky voice echoed through the cafe and most of the customers suddenly called for maids to order pizza and just seeing the customers' faces as they say "pizza" makes me crave so much to eat one but we can't eat right now if there's a frenzy of customers demanding for pizza.

The smell of some root beer and other hard drinks are smelled throughout the cafe as well but the pizza's aroma stays. Alice was right when the cafe turns completely different, it kind of looks like a night pizza shop now and the lights also went dim, it makes me want to quit my job and just order and eat food.

The evening went on and as 9:45pm strikes, the band is already assembling their stuff on stage and everyone seems to be excited for the gig, I'm really getting nervous even if I'm only gonna sing "It's confession weather" which is the very last song to be sung. Marian on the other hand is gonna sing most of the songs, Divina also takes part with the vocals and she is also assigned to sing two solo songs.

More customers started to come in when the gig is about to begin and it has become such a difficult crowd to handle, I noticed Alice is actually holding on my maid uniform tightly very often for no apparent reason, whenever she's free from customers, she always seem to run back beside me again and whenever I'm in charged with some customers, she follows along and asks if I need help, she's really acting weird as if she's also gonna perform on stage or maybe she's just nervous because of the set up plan she proposed along with Louis about Harry and Marian.

The gig started in no time when the sound of Louis' keyboards filled the whole cafe and all of the customers started to cheer in excitement, a smile formed on my lips because I didn't knew their performances are quite popular around here and it's nice to see people jamming to music and having a good time. Niall and Ivan started to play as well but suddenly, someone bursted through the entrance of the cafe and I turned to look to see Liam, haggard and sweaty, quickly making his way inside the cafe and not even bothering to consult a maid for him to get a chair and instead, he just ran to the nearest vacant table, I didn't mind him anymore since it's the table I would have let him take a seat in anyway.

Marian is now singing "Love Marginal" and surprisingly, the crowd sang along, it got me wondering as to why they know the lyrics for the song, it's an original song made by Louis and Marian. As I was about to clap to the beat just like how everyone else has been doing, I heard Alice call out my maid name and I look at her.

"That customer wants you to serve her," Alice mouthed to me while she points her index finger at the customer who's wearing a feathery coat, a weird looking hat and shades, I cringed at how she dresses because who would even wear shades at night? She has a very pathetic fashion sense, but nonetheless, I just made my way towards her so I can do my job and then enjoy the rest of the night. As I got nearer, I realised that she has green dye with pink highlights at the end of her hair, it reminded me of someone that I can't even remember who but whoever that person is, I think now is not the time to think about him or her.

"Good evening and welcome to cup of cafe, maid Mari at your service, may I take your order?" I told the customer but she just seem to look up at me with a disgusted face.

"Maid Mari, How much more pathetic can you actually fucking be?!" She exclaimed and I got taken aback by her words. I'm not doing anything bad to her and yet she yells disgusting words at me, we're not close for her to play banter with me and even if she is, it's still rude. I wanted to snap her head for saying those words, she calls for me to serve her and this is what she does? I'm trying my best to contain myself if I don't want to lose my job before getting my pay and what is she even talking about? I don't get it why she would call me pathetic, heck, she's more pathetic than I am just by judging with her fashion sense.

"Oh, I'm sorry if my maid name or even myself is that pathetic for your fashion sense to talk to me," I don't know if my words actually made sense, but I know that I just disrespected a customer and it should be kept as a secret to Harry if I don't want myself to get fired. I cleared my throat and tried my best to remain calm as I listened to the introduction Louis is giving to each members of his band. "May I take your order?"

"Just serve me some wine," she demanded and I then walked away from her to get her order. As I am walking and preparing to serve her order, I realised that her voice sounds a little familiar and I think I have heard it somewhere, even the style of how her hair was dyed reminds me of someone but since I suck at remembering things, I can't remember who it is. I'm still mad at that customer for mouthing those things to me, I am indeed not pathetic and it's a good thing that the band is playing loudly, hopefully, no other customers have heard us that time.

The time passed very quick, as long as I can remember I was just hanging around with Alice, jamming to "Spiacaterrible" and right now, Divina and Marian are now performing "Anemone Heart" and up next is "It's Confession Weather" which is the song I'm gonna sing along with Marian.

Yesterday, we practiced every single thing that needs to be practiced, Divina also taught me how to sing properly which kind of helped me so that I won't run out of breath while hitting long notes but even with all those practicing, I'm still nervous, anything embarrassing can happen on stage, I'm afraid that I'll crack my voice, just imagine how many people would be sent off to the ambulance because their ear drums exploded, and consider the fact that I'll be using a microphone, oh God, please bless the people here tonight that'll hear my very beautiful voice.

"Thank you everyone for tonight but before this event ends, we would love to share the new song we have that'll also be sung by Maid Mahamari and I, please give her a welcoming applause," Marian announced and al the customers turned their head towards me, Liam stood up and applauded the loudest but all the applauses doesn't help me lessen the tense at all, it makes me more nervous, I don't want all their attention at me but every step I take to go to the mini stage, all their applauses grow louder and my confidence is also fading.

I finally got on stage and stood there awkwardly as everyone in the band also clapped their hands for me, the noise calmed down when Marian said some more things, I just look down on the ground but then I heard someone calling for my attention and I turned to my side to see Niall.

"Are you alright?" He whispered but loud enough for me to hear.

"No," I told him honestly and pouted involuntarily but I just heard him chuckle and smile, he moved closer to me and leaned towards.

"You'll do fine," he reassured me and his hands left his guitar to touch mines that are clenched together and he separated both of my hands and gave it a little massage then a tight squeeze right after. "I'm just behind you and you can always look back at me for reassurance, okay?" He scooted away behind me and I just nodded back at him and faced the microphone, readying myself. Marian's speech was over and then Divina's drumsticks made a noise and counted off then Marian and I sang in a duet.

Hey, listen to me please,
I have something to tell you about myself,

After that, Niall's guitar riff is heard and everyone cheered for that and I looked back at him and smiled at him, not because I need reassurance but because I wanted to let him know that he did a great job. Marian sang her solo and then the beat of the drums and the keyboard are now overpowering but the sound of the bass is supporting all the instruments.

You probably never notice or
Pay any attention to me,
But, I'll always be right here,
I'll always be right here,

I sang after Marian's solo, the crowd cheered but I don't know any reasons as to why would they do that, Marian sang her solo again and it was quickly followed by mine.

The thought of you not liking me,
But I need to be the one to greet you this morning

Hey, look up at the sky, the sun is shining bright,
My energy is loaded,
Instead of saying "good morning", I'll tap you on the back and say "let's go"

Whenever the sun's out, shining down at me,
The day is filled with happiness,
But for some reason, this pain inside my heart won't seem to go away.

The chorus ended and Marian did something to make our voices blend more, I'm glad that my very beautiful voice is getting overpowered by Marian's voice whenever we sing together, it makes it inaudible but still hearable. I never expected it to happen but I enjoyed the rest of the song, even though it's super girly, I just started to like the song much more now that I performed it, as we reach the instrumental part of the song, I looked back at Niall to see him doing so well with his guitar, everyone in the crowd always swoon during the instrumentals part.

I got fascinated on how much passion Niall is pouring while playing his guitar, all of his members are passionate about playing their instruments, but he seem to stand out the most for me probably because I learned about his past with music.

The instrumentals part ended and sang once again and we repeated the chorus of the song but I can slightly hear a deep voice backing Marian and I's very light voices, it doesn't sound like Divina because it's way deeper than hers but I can't look back since I'm still nervous which made me glued on my spot but one thing I got to say is that it is a masculine voice with a very strong accent.

The song finished and everyone applauded us, I can see Alice at the back, clapping. I felt so overwhelmed when everyone clapped for the performance, although not all those claps are for me, I just felt so happy that mostly everyone has enjoyed the performance, even if I only took a small portion in it, I'm still happy for all of the people who performed tonight.

But out of the sea of people applauding, one person caught my eye: the customer I served earlier. Her hands flew and banged the table, she threw her legs vigorously and stood up then stormed her way out of the coffee shop, it made me curious as to what her problem is, she must be bothered about something or maybe she's just on her red days, this is probably what Niall thinks when I pour my anger on him whenever I'm on my days.

And that is when the gig ends, everyone has started to walk out of the coffee shop and thanked the band for a wonderful time, it makes me laugh of the thought that they may have forgotten to pay for their food and Harry must have probably forgotten about it too because he's still kind of paralysed and steady on his position, still amazed and fascinated, I would like to think that he's fascinated with Louis, Marian and Harry would make a great couple but Louis and Harry are just cute that makes us ship them more than Marian and Harry to be honest.

"Okay, that was such a successful gig, thank you all so much, and at this point we probably need to arrange everything now," and with Louis' statement, we knew exactly what we need to do at this point now.

Alice and I are already holding the flower petals we have prepared to spread on the table and around the coffee shop to make it seem romantic, the both of us are allergic to romantic things so it's a really hard task for us to do this but Louis insisted for us to do it anyways since we're the "girls" here but I bet Ivan would do such a great job than Alice and I combined, Ivan has suggested a lot of romantic ideas and because of that, it lead me to conclude that he's the type of guy who's really romantic, poor kid his girlfriend broke up with him.

Liam and Ivan are already in front of us, they're in charged to not let Marian nor Harry see anything we're doing and then Divina and Niall are inside the personnel's room, probably picking out her maid uniform for tonight, she lost a bet to Louis and well it was said by both sides that if Divina lose, she'll be a maid for tonight.

Louis has now put his hand in the air and counted down from five to one and as his fingers are already down, the lights were off and everyone of us were surprised, none of this is in the plan but maybe it's already a signal for us to do it.

"What happened?" Marian's voice echoed but there is another creepy voice surrounding the room, it sent shivers down my spine and I even stepped back because I can hear that the voice is near me. Goosebumps started to cover my whole body as the deep creepy voice continues to echo throughout the room, then suddenly a chuckle escaped from someone's lips and it is quite similar to the creepy voice earlier until I realised that the person who's making the creepy noises is just beside me... It was Alice.

"The smell of the hard drinks linger on my nose, what an unpleasant smell,"

"Uhmm... Alice?" I questioned since she is blurting out weird things and I can hear from the distant a small "oh no" from someone.

"The taste of the pie that I took a bite on still makes itself at home on my tongue as my taste buds are still activated, salivating to taste it once again," Alice laughs after she said that, my hair all over my body is still up and I can barely feel the warmth of my maid uniform. Marian is blabbering about the electricity and as well as Harry and then I can also hear from the distance, Niall's voice telling Divina to hurry up but then a scream caught all our attention and I didn't even know what's happening anymore.

Alice laughs once again until she screams and it is as if my ear drums just got broken because of the scream, through the moonlight outside, I saw Alice banging her hands on one of the tables and turning it around as if she became a lunatic. "It's so dark, someone save me! It's scary here, someone get me out of here, where's the light? It's so scary, scary, scary!"

"Oh no, Alice! She's afraid of the dark, we need the lights to be on now!" Alice continued to rage on and we heard a lot of crash and bangs coming from her direction, Niall's still audible but most of the noise is coming from Alice who's losing her shit. Oh boy, this is gonna be a long night.

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A/N we're slowly getting there, guys. If you were a keen observer, you'll notice something more on this chapter other than Alice losing her mind and I hope you all get the hint and actually feel the vibe of trouble and complication coming on the future chapters. I hope everyone enjoyed this chapter, votes and comments, would really be appreciated 😊.

Next update: 06/14 (hey! It's my birthday 😂)
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